Sunday, 16 August 2026

No progress - No realization

 

- You - the object with which you had identified yourself is only a phenomenon totally devoid of any substance, independence or autonomy — merely a dreamed appearance in someone else's consciousness — and that, therefore, for such a mere shadow there can never be any question of either bondage or liberation. - Any action — positive or negative — based on the notion of an autonomous, independent entity implies a fundamental failure to grasp the essentials. So long as there is a pseudo-entity considering itself a seeker and working towards 'liberation', it will continue to remain in 'bondage'. - There cannot be any progress if you continue to regard yourself as an entity and expect the Guru, as another entity, to give you some homework to do, and when that is duly completed, to award you a sort of certificate, or something, on a platter as 'liberation'. - There can he no self-realized 'person' and, therefore, there is no question of how a self-realized person acts in the world. - So long as there is an entity seeking liberation, he will never find it. - How can a conceptual appearance know whether it is making any conceptual progress towards its conceptual liberation? - Apperception is not a matter of gradual practice. It can only happen by itself instantaneously — there are no stages in which deliberate progress is made. There is no 'one' to make any progress.

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita (Nondualism), and a Guru, belonging to the Navnath Sampradaya. Sri Nisargadatta, with his direct and minimalistic explanation of non-dualism, is considered the most famous teacher of Advaita since Ramana Maharshi. In 1973, the publication of his most famous and widely-translated book, "I AM THAT", an English translation of his talks in Marathi by Maurice Frydman, brought him worldwide recognition and followers.

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